James Calvert Spence College
Secondary · Morpeth · NE65 0NG
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 15 June 2022
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567 pupils · 54% of 1,049 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 33.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.jcsc.co.uk
- URN
- 122363
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place88 places offered · 88 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions demand: Year 9 entry, September 2016
1.00 first-choice applications per place75 places offered · 75 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
86 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
85 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
79% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 15% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 27 January 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 20 January 2020: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 16 October 2018: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.